Summary of Career: Grachev became an FM when he was 9 and became the U10 Champion of the World in 1995. He has also been the U10, U16, U18 and U20 Russian champion. He won the Lublin GM (2009) (1) and the Biel Open (2009). (2) 2nd in the II Lublin Union Memorial (Poland) 9-18 May 2010. (3) He qualified for the World Cup (2011) through his results in the European Individual Championships (2010), defeating Evgeny Romanov in the first round, but losing to Vietnamese super-GM Le Quang Liem in the second round. He came 5th in the Moscow Open - A in 2014, half a point from the leaders. (4) His =5th in the European Individual Championship (2015) with 7.5/11 earned him a place in the World Cup (2015)(5) from which he was eliminated after losing to Alexander Motylev in the first round's blitz tiebreakers after the standard games and the two sets of rapid tiebreakers were drawn.

notyetagm: <DCP23: GM Boris Grachev (aka Guenplen on Playchess) remains on 100% with 4 points out of 4 games played, and a perfomance rating of 3263, the official site tells us. Of course that figure is next to useless with a 100% result but still -- impressive.>

DCP23: <bauernfresser: And now that he is in the Top 100, still nobody knows nothing about him?>

We know everything about him :) Depends on what do you want to hear.

He is a GM, currently rated 2652 which makes him #75 in the World and #19 in Russia.

Born on March 27, 1986, in Moscow. His dad taught him chess when he was 4. He became World Champion under 10 in 1995, and that tourney (held in Brasil) earned him an FM title. He was 9 years old.

He is Russian Champion under 10, under 16, under 18, and under 20.

He plays on Playchess as 'guenplen'.
He is considered one of the very best in the world at ultra-fast time controls, such as 1+0. Many other GMs, including famous blitz specialists, often ask him for advice on some finer points of Internet blitzing, such as what mouse should they use etc.

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